Security alert [12/19/2016]: Ethereum.org Forums Database Compromised

Posted by Hudson Jameson on December 19, 2016

On December 16, we were made aware that someone had recently gained unauthorized access to a database from forum.ethereum.org. We immediately launched a thorough investigation to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. Here is what we know:

The information that was recently accessed is a database backup from April 2016 and contained information about 16.5k forum users.